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Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-like-the-dump-truck dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe will finally release the new version of its Reader software — which will include the much-anticipated Protected Mode security feature — next month. Adobe Reader X will include a number of other new features in addition to the sandbox feature. Adobe officials have been discussing Protected Mode for several months now and said early on that it would be included in the next version of Reader, but had never set a time line for the release of Reader X. Now, the company says the new version will be available in November, although no specific date was announced."

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  1. when your os... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...makes you always run with admin rights ( they should toss that policy out the *window*), individual programs have to act like little operating systems and do their own rights separation.

    1. Re:when your os... by afidel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Windows hasn't done that since 2000 if you know what you are doing.... Even less so for Vista/2008 and up.

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  2. Re:At Last! by MoonBuggy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adobe used to make very good software - now they make very exploitable software.

    They still can make good software, which they proceed to sell for very large quantities of cash. What I don't really understand is why they ever updated PDF beyond being a simple document format - it introduced all of these vulnerabilities, and gave them a lot more work to do on their free reader software, for little real value. What was wrong with just keeping it as a simple extension of postscript?

  3. Great! by Local+ID10T · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New Adobe Acrobat Reader X!

    Slower and more bloated than ever before!

    New holes to exploit*!

    (*old holes still included)
    ...yeah, I'll stick with Foxit Reader.

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  4. A better protected mode by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OS X - built-in Preview app
    Linux - Evince, several others
    M-Windows - Foxit, Sumatra

    The alternatives are so much better than Adobe Acrobat Reader that I think we can now say that the alternatives are the market and Acrobat Reader is the poor alternative.

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    1. Re:A better protected mode by blindbat · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Unless you work in the printing field. If so, all of the programs you list fail miserably at rendering the files. On both Mac and Windows.

  5. Re:At Last! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why is it that Acrobat reader is 200mb and takes forever to install, and installs several other adobe products with it and then requires admin rights to install updates so it always gets outdated and becomes vulnerable?... it's because it has become bloatware. Just like Quickbooks, it just keeps getting slower and slower and slower, and contains more features that 90% of users wont ever use.

    SumatraPDF is like 1.5MB and installs in less than 5 seconds and opens instantly

    Perhaps there should be a Lite version of Adobe Acrobat for people who just want to view PDF files... we could call it "Adobe Acrobat Reader"